How Mia Can Win: Don't Let Matheson Define Her

On April 22^nd I posted a blog summarizing this year’s convention. In it I expressed concern that Mia Love would be subjected to the same sorts of slander that her predecessors have been. I stated that she needed to get out in front of the silliness and attack the idea of “right wing extremism,” an ill-defined term that the newspapers have been using to scare people into voting as close to Democrat as their conscious will allow. It’s a term the party needs to deal with because it is, as a point of fact, the primary weapon of the Democrats, and a great method of distraction. After all, why pay attention to the spending and the loss of liberty if we are flinging mud at each other?

UTGOP 2012 convention: What the Hell?

I want to first offer my congratulations to the winners of last night’s convention, as well as support. Though we “radical libertarians” are often accused of stuff we’re not doing we do our due diligence for the party, as will I. While I am disgusted with David Kirkham who spent the last several months trashing Governor Herbert only to endorse him after being knocked out in the first round. Morgan Philpot had a philosophical and financial argument to make, that I believe was indeed a good one that would have resonated in a primary. We do need to get the state financially independent of federal dollars, but if there was inflammatory rhetoric it came from Kirkham who discredited himself, and Utah’s Tea Party by backing the very governor he was slamming. Whatever credibility the Tea Party had left in Utah it’s done now.